04.25.09
Business on the Electronic Frontier
Staying connected seems to be promoted as a key element in business today. What does this mean when you are ‘ staying connected’ ? What is the cost to staying connected ? Having to travel for my small and thriving businesses staying connected is one of my key concerns at all times. Roaming is not for everyone unless you are corporate and a 100 000 or 200 000 rupee phone bill does not shake you its highly unlikely that this is the best option for small businesses. Then there is the issue of internet and buying per hour usage to check mail when traveling. Though you tend to resort to this practise because of lack of choice the cost is very high. An hour of internet on average costs about 6 Euro when traveling in europe. Yet to really work with your office and communicate effectively an hour a day is not going to be enough. Are we stumped with options in this digital age ? Has the cost off connectivity really leveled the playing field? As a business I m not to keen to use a public computer system such as an internet cafe. In my daily work alot of the communication has to be safe and secure. I believe that this market where every business can communicate effectively and securely irrespective of region or location is widely untapped. A few ideas have formulated as to how this issue can be tackled and I am sure that I am not the first. With internet basically having the capacity to bring all types of communication together this definetly seems to be the medium to use. The next asset is the mobile phone every business is integrated with 100 s of units in every institution. How do you merge these two? Providers of world roaming services could integrate a powerful internet portal that would allow for communication to work with their roaming services. For example if a user were to send
a sms to check their mail and respond to all emails on a local sms wouldn’t that be great ?
Posted by Wordmobi
04.11.09
Touchphones vs buttons
Just bought myself a nokia e 71 and is the third nokia e that i am using. What i found interesting is that compared to two years ago the choice i had to make was huge. The main difference was the availability of having touch screen phones with a huge feature set. 2 touchphones that i got to play with were nokia 5800 xpress and the iphone. To be completely honest i think both had some plus points. I also did not feel like both were phone material. also the iphone might have been a strong media device but as a phone its ease of use was highly questionable. i think the huge screen watching videos and surfing were definately the best on this device. Yet i would not buy a phone to do this as i usually expect my phone to be a quick communication device — sms, rss, mail, CLEAR phone calls. The Nokia 5800 – I actually found the touch interface super to use (and easier to adopt to than iPhone). I felt browsing was better in the iphone though. I thought they were both equally difficult to sms even with the virtual keyboards opened up. I still think traditional physical keyboards are the best. After peeling open my e71 and configuring podcasts, rss, mail and everything else on it I am ready to go. Coupled with a good battery life the phone is quite feature packed. blackberry connect would have been a plus but seven is the alternative i guess. Along with the Nokia SIP stack and mobile vpn this phone has covered almost every angle. Lets see how this device performs as the unified communication tool 
